Okay, Mitsuki. Those are some pretty epic posts right there. I've gone through and re-ISO'd Shadoweh. A lot of people asked why I was voting for them, but I didn't post about it because I thought the case was clear and me posting more would just make it more confusing. But you raised some good points so now I have to question my own reasoning, too. I guess I'd like you to ISO Shadoweh to the same degree you have Kilga and Validon. I know you said that you have a null read on Shadoweh, however you also said you didn't read in great detail (or something like that) so I feel like you suspected Kilg/Validon and just focused on them. That's my suspicion. That said, having a new player enter the field does have the big bonus of they are likely to pick up questionable details that everybody has just assumed is the truth.
My position on Shadoweh started day 1
http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,15788.msg1038954.html#msg1038954. (On a related note, could somebody please show me how to make it so I can hide the link behind a word like 'here').
And if I thought CF7 was worse, Shadoweh is just horrible. They have also posted zero content posts, and largely made no effort to even defend themselves. This is such a massive difference from their previous game. It's a big red flag for me.
I feel like this trend continued. Shadoweh didn't appear to be scum hunting. At the time, I voted SB for the same general reason, although I tipped SB over Shadoweh because I felt SB's coaching to be malicious and harmful. Unfortunately, it turned out to be genuine and supportive. Oh well.
Shadoweh then voted for CF7
http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,15788.msg1039083.html#msg1039083 for no specific reason other than to 'not vote for Serela'. To be clear, it wasn't a scumhunt - it was lynch somebody who wasn't posting.
I'm gonna throw down a vote down and see if people want to change their minds considering I don't want to vote any of the major wagons AS USUAL
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The reason I finally voted Shadoweh was in this post:
http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,15788.msg1039373.html#msg1039373At that time, I voted Serela because of meta "better to lynch than no lynch on d1". However I had picked SB because I thought at that time they were voting for CF7, not Darkie. Kilga pointed out my mistake.
So my argument should read:
"What he is doing is voting for CF7, at this stage a fairly useless vote. However, CF7 is not doing anything.
CF7 is one of my scum picks. Shadoweh is one of my scum picks. Why would scum vote for scum -> when there is no danger.
What's the danger in day1? For scum, it's 1- town lunches a scum, and 2, town lynches not-scum.
Scum want to make non contributing votes on day 1 that appear contributing.
The easiest way to do that is to vote for an afk - town may switch to afk CF7 and pop! Shadoweh will have helped lynch scum, therefore appearing town.
Why not help lynch Serela? Because scums want the lynch to fail today regardless if it's town or scum."
However, I didn't state that clearly in my post where I voted for Shadoweh. I guess that's why people were confused about my reasoning. I voted for Shadoweh because;
1: I thought the vote on CF7 was a ploy to escape suspicion, and
2: They didn't actually do any scumhunting up until this point, and finally
3: I felt that she was playing in a significantly different style than to her previous game. In particular, Shadoweh was posting a lot less, and not bossing people around. Shadoweh did a lot of work in the previous game. In this one she just appears to be coasting.
I voted for Shadoweh TODAY because she was part of my day1 scumhunting picks and I wanted to see how the day panned out. I had started to look at Dark and Validon because I thought, "What if it really was just as straightforward as this: SB was killed because scum were worried he was too close." Then Shadoweh had a pretty bad fumble (
http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,15788.msg1039972.html#msg1039972). SB's death and the reason we knew it wasn't a vighit (he could vote) were key points of the discussion up until that point. It should have been relevant! How did Shadoweh miss it? Then when Cheez8 pointed it out (
http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,15788.msg1039983.html#msg1039983) Shadoweh was best friends for ever with Cheez8. I feel like towny's would have been paying more attention to these details and not missed it in the first place, basically.
Also in that same post, Shadoweh then votes for the afk slot - NekoNekoRex/CF7. NNR then had this to say about me (
http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,15788.msg1040326.html#msg1040326) and I was just incredulous that anybody could have been suspecting me over Shadoweh at this stage. I thought the most obvious answer was that NNR was trying to save Shadoweh, probably because they were scumbuddies. This was largely because NNR straight up focused on me without any consideration of Shadoweh. That's the reason I asked Mitsuki to ISO Shadoweh also. I want both sides of the argument considered. But I don't consider Mitsuki as automatically scum because unlike NNR, she used good reasoning and showed a lot of effort and consideration went in to her post. NNR just copy pasted things out of context and made stuff up. So it looks bad for them, and by association, Shadoweh.
At this point there was a solid d2 wagon going on Shadoweh and their only contribution was to say "Sky did you just accuse Neko, the slot I've been suggesting we lynch every day, of being my scum partner?" with no rebuttal except for a handwave 'people need to stop associating before players are flipped'. How about an argument to defend yourself or even helping us narrow down other targets, if you aren't scum.
Then finally there was this post (
http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,15788.msg1040718.html#msg1040718) which sounds like giving up. But where's the fight? I didn't see...ANYTHING...from Shadoweh the whole time. There's not a single scumhunting post or even an effort at defense. I'm really shocked by it.
And that catches us up with today. Please have a look at these points, Mitsuki, and see if it changes your opinions at all.